Position Overview
Provide executive leadership and direction to all ministries pertaining to our Kids-(1st through 5th grade) and Student Ministries-(6th through 12th grade), helping to create an environment where Kids and Students are being led to Jesus, loved into Community, and launched into Making a Difference. This is a pastoring role that will provide CARE for our kids/students & their families, and COACHING for our volunteers on how to LEAD, LOVE, & LAUNCH.
Position Values
This person must love Jesus, love Kids/Students, and must not only be a “people-person” who is creative and fun, but also someone who knows how to empower volunteers. This person must have a “servant’s heart” and be a team player. Regarding education and experience, this person must at least; (1) have a completed bachelor’s degree, and (2) have 5 years of working with Kids and/or Students in a preferably paid or volunteer capacity. This person must also have administrative gifts and have a willingness to learn and/or have a basic understanding of how to use programs like— (Planning Center, Pro Presenter, Adobe, and E.O.S.).
Responsibilities
Include but are not limited to
(1) Connecting…
a. our elementary Kids & Students-(1st-12th grade)-to Jesus & to one another within community.
b. our families with elementary Kids & Students to Jesus & to one another within community.
c. our local schools to Jesus. (Identify 2 local schools to “connect” with)
(2) Communicating…
a. to your supervisor regarding Kids & Student ministries updates & calendar events.
b. to our families with Kids & Students, regarding ministry updates & calendar events.
c. to our Kids & Students ministries volunteers, regarding ministry updates & calendar events.
(3) Coaching…
a. by Identifying, Recruiting, Training and Releasing Kids & Student ministries volunteers to Lead kids/students to Jesus, Love them into Community, and Launch them into Making a Difference.
b. by encouraging families with Kids & Students to raise their Kids/Students to love Jesus. (We want to “come along side” our families & help them in this endeavor…not take over for them).
We Exist to Lead the ONE Home into a Life-Changing Relationship with Jesus.
This phrase “Lead the One Home” has captured our hearts. We truly believe the “problem” we’re seeing in our culture is that people are disconnected from God and from others, and the result of this disconnection is people feeling lost and alone. We also believe the “solution” to this problem is found in Jesus’ Parable of the Lost Sheep, and how that parable describes a shepherd who is willing to leave the comfort found in the Ninety-Nine in order to lead the ONE home. Jesus has done this for us, and He is calling us to do the same for the ONE’s in our lives today. Each of us knows a ONE who is feeling disconnected, and as followers of Jesus, it’s our responsibility to “Lead the One Home”.
